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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CALVIX G. UDELL, OF INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA.

IRONING-TABLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 340,641, dated April27, 1386.

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To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CALVIN G. UDELL, a resident of Indianapolis, Marioncounty, Indiana, have made certain new and useful Improvements inIroning-Tables, a description of which is set forth in the followingspecification, reference being made to the accompanying drawings, in theseveral figures of which like letters indicate like parts.

My improvement relates to the construction of tables having a removabletop and folding frame-work. and is adapted to be used as a table forironing, and other purposes where a folding table is desired, and willbe understood from the following description.

In the drawings, Figure 1 represents a side view of an ironing-tableembodying my device. Fig. 2 is an end view of the same; Fig. 3, a viewwith the top removed and the frame-work folded down upon the cross-bar.Fig. 4 is a longitudinal section through the hinges and end of thecross-bar euiargr d. Fig. 5 is a side view of one of the hinge-plates.

In detail st are the ends or standards of the J frame, constructed inthe manner shown in Fig. 2, of an upright, a foot, and a top crosspiece, to one of the latter of which are fastened by screws small ironclamps c, and on the other cross-piece a strip of rubber, 7', isfastened, the top 25, which may be made in any convenient shape, beingclamped down at one end upon the frame-work by the clamps c and restingat the other upon the rubber strip, which prevents it from slipping. Theclamps and rubber are only ured when an ironing-table is iutended, andan ordinary tabletop may be put upon the same frame-work, a very simplemechanical change only being required to adapt any form of top to theframe-work.

h h represent hinge-plates, which are secured by screws to each side ofthe standards st, and at the rear end these plates are provided withprojections b, which enter sockets formed in each side of the cross-barcb, as shown in Fig. 4, thus forming a hinge, by means of which thestandards may be folded down upon the cross-bar. The outer ends of thesehinge-plates are provided with flanges, which together nearly inclosethe outside of the standard, and the flanges sp, integral with theplates, are for clamping the wood of the standard on the inside, thusmaking all very secure.

sb are iron braces, slotted nearly their entire length, and pivoted attheir upper ends to the standards at 1. Their lower ends are turned upat a right angle to the main portion ofthe brace, the slot alsoextending up at a similar right angle, and then secured by a screw, 8,fastened to the crossbar. The angle in the slotted brace and in the slotallows the brace, when drawn out to its full extent by the opening ofthe frame, to be pushed down, so that the stop .9 is thus made toabutagainst theside of the slot and lock it firmly in its position, anduntil the brace is pulled up the table cannot be folded down, as thebrace cannot slide on the stop 8 until it enters the long part of theslot.

The clamp c has its lower end pivoted to the I head of the standard st,as shown in Fig. 2, and its upper end, which is formed in the shape of aflat hook, is brought over the end of the top t, the end of which topabuts against the shank of the clamp, as shown in Fig. 1.

WVhat I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is the following:

' 1. Au ironing-table composed of upright standards st, connected by thecross-bar cb,

hinged to the central portion of the standards 1 by the hinges h, theslotted braces sb, pivoted to the standards above such cross-bar andprovided with right-angled slots at the opposite end, which move uponthe stops 8, secured to the crossbar 0b, the removable top If, the clamp

